2020 Our Cat Herder Updates

Updates to the Our Cat Herder system in 2021.

Feb - April 2021

New Features

Meeting Pack Notation

Meeting attendees can now notate "All as PDF" meeting packs inside meetings with private notes.

Minor Updates

Settings

• Portal Admin's can globally disable the download meeting papers as a zip file for the portal.

Discussions

• 'Private' is now the default when a Discussion Group is created.

Actions

• You can now send a notification when you comment on an action to the action assignees.

Activity Log

• When logging folder deletion to "activity log" we now log a list of the files within that were removed.

Documents

• Added user who uploaded a file and user that last updated the file.

Bug Fixes

• Increase margins in Minutes and Agenda system generated PDF files.

• Meeting update notifications now update .ics file.

• System appending (1) to folders on some portals fixed.

• DESCRIPTION, LOCATION & ORGANISER added to .ics files.

• Stoped meeting chairperson getting two meeting invite notifications by default to meetings.

• Admin's can no longer select view only mode in meetings on their own user.

• No longer send users a copy of their own discussion message in Discussions.

January 2021

New Features

• Admin's can request minutes unlock and chair can approve unlock. Changes to minutes are logged and tracked.

• Mark Documents as read. On the meeting details page you can now mark each document as read so you know which documents you have looked at and those you haven't.

• Each user can now have a secondary email attached to their account. Users can control which portal notifications go to each email and if the secondary email can be user for login.

Minor Updates

• Admin/Meeting Creators can now exclude specific system generated documents from the "All as PDF" document.

Bug Fixes

• Not all user logins were being shown in the Activity Log (although they were being recorded by Our Cat Herder)